TREATY SENT HOME. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 



DEPARTURE OF COMMANDER ADAMS FOR THE CNITED STATES, WITH THE TREATY. VISITS OF THE COMMODORE AND OFFICERS 



ON SHORE. IMPERTf RBABLE COMPOSURE OF TENOSKE WHEN CHARGED WITH FALSEHOOD. CALL UPON THK MAYOR OF 



TOKU-nAM\. THE LADIES OF HIS HOUSEHOLD. DISGUSTING FASHION OF DYEING THEIR TEETH. USE OF ROUGE. 



ENTERTAINMENT OF THE COMMODORE. THE MAYOr's BABY . THE COMMON PEOPLE VERY COMFORTABLE. FIELD LABORS 



SHARED BY THE WOMEN. STRAW GREAT COAT FOR RAINY WEATHER. PAPER UMBRELLAS. PEOPLE NOT INDISPOSED 



TO INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGNERS. RESPECTFUL TREATMENT OF THE FEMALE SEX. JAPANESE UN-ORIENTAL IN THIS 



RESPECT. POLYGAMY NOT PRACTISED. JAPANESE WOMEN NATURALLY GOOD-LOOKING. SOME STRIKINGLY HANDSOME . 



GIRLS HAVE GREAT VIVACITY, YET DIGNIFIED AND MODEST. SOCIAL HABITS .^ VISITS . TEA PARTIES. SQUADRON, 



AFTER NOTICE TO THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES, PROCEEDS UP THE BAY WITH SOME OF THE OFFICIALS ON BOARD. 



POWHATAN AND MISSISSIPPI GO WITHIN SIGHT OF THE CAPITAL.— ITS IMMENSE SIZE. SEA FRONT PBOTECTED Bf HIGH 



PALISADES. CHANGE OF JAPANESE POLICY ON THE SECOND VISIT TO YEDO . ALL SHOW OF MILITARY RESISTANCE 



STUDIOUSLY AVOIDED. THE COMMODORE ASSURES THE JAPANESE OFFICIALS THAT HE WILL NOT ANCHOR THE STEA.MERS 



NEAR THE CITY, AND, AFTER A GLANCE, AT THEIR REQUEST, RETURNS. GREAT JOY OF THE OFFICIALS THEREAT. 



PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE. MACEDONIAN ORDERED TO PEEL ISLAND. SOUTHAMPTON, SUPPLY, VANDALIA, AND 



LEXINGTON SENT TO SIMODA . WEBSTER ISLAND. DEPARTURE OF THE COMMODORE FOR S1M0D,A. HARBOR EXAMINED. 



THE TOWN AND ADJACENT COUNTRY. SHOPS AND DWELLINGS. PUBLIC BATHS. FOOD. MODE OF CULTIVATION. 



1 DDDHIST TEMPLES. CRAVE YARDS AND TOMBS, STATUES OF BUDDHA. OFFERINGS OF FLOWERS ON THE GRAVES. 



EPITAPHS OR INSCRIPTIONS. CHARMS FOR KEEPING AWAY FROM THE DEAD MALIGNANT DEMONS. A TEMPLE APPRO- 

 PRIATED FOR THE OCCUPANCY OF OUR OFFICERS. A SINXOO TEMPLE. HARINER's TEMPLE. SALUBRITY OF SIMODA. 



MADE AN IMPERIAL CITY SINCE THE TREATY. 



HK treaty having been signed and exchanged, the Commodore 

 sent it, together with the necessary communications, to our 

 government at Washington, under the especial charge of 

 Commander H. A. Adams, commissioned as hearer of dis- 

 patches, who left in the Saratoga. This vessel got under way 

 on the morning of the 4th of April, (1854,) and sailed for the 

 Sandwich Islands, homeward hound. As she passed the 

 squadron anchored at Kanagawa, the Saratoga saluted the 

 flag of the Commodore with thirteen guns, which were re- 

 turned from the Powhatan. The wind and weather prevented 

 her, however, from getting out of the hay, and she was 

 obliged to anchor at the " American anchorage " on the first 

 night, and did not stand out for sea until the next day. 



The Japanese interpreters still visited the ships almost 



daily, and came on hoard the Powhatan on the day after the 



departure of the Saratoga, bringing with them a number of trifling presents of lacquered ware, 



porcelain, and other articles for several of the subordinate officers. On the following morning, 



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